MEQUON, Wisc., May 22, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Feast upon a buffet of literary pieces served up by poet Roy Arthur Swanson in an exhaustive plateful called Blue Margin. Savor the distinctive flavor of each prose cooked up with a heavy sprinkling of rhythm and a dash of rhyme. The result is one astral delight readers will revisit over and over again.
Blue Margin refers to the prime oneness that Martin Heidegger identifies as earth, sky, divinities, and mortals -- the unity of four that, in a fluctuating fashion, frames existence. To speak of this undulant frame is to use language; and Language, according to Heidegger, is the saying of Being. In this book, verse seeks to reflect the undulance of language; the waves of tentative rhythms and ambiguities collapse, then, into divagation on (1) mimesis vs. metaphor and (2) anagoge: the collapse is then further particularized by anagram, here a calculating play of letters that links the Reformation to the small market; selling shoes, for example.
Get a copy of this one of a kind collection and take pleasure in the exhilarating goodness brought about by Swanson's mischievous recreation of words. It will fill your literary hunger to the brimming.
This book will be featured in the Blue Margin Book Exhibit which will be held at Niagara Falls, NY, from October 15 to 16, 2009. For more information, log on to www.Xlibris.com.
About the Author
Those who can, do; those who teach, do something else. Roy Arthur Swanson began doing something else as the principal and upper-grade teacher of Maplewood Elementary School in North St. Paul, Minnesota, and went on to teach Latin at the University of Illinois High School, Classics and English in Indiana University, Classics and Humanities at the University of Minnesota, and Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. At Minnesota and Wisconsin-Milwaukee, he received a total of four awards for Distinguished Teaching. Blue Margin is his attempt to learn an approach to spirituality by teaching something about the mystery of words.
Blue Margin * by Roy Arthur Swanson
Versions of Rhetoric
Publication Date: September 26, 2008
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